Attention all photographers, artists and designers: Your website needs protection – maybe more than any other type of website! Here at Legal123, we are constantly surprised at the number of photography and digital print websites that have little or no legal protection for their work. And these websites are the most at risk – their […]
Copyright Infringement Archive
How Big is the Copyright Infringement Problem? Huge!
Google receives more than 1 million copyright takedown notices per day. Online copyright infringement is a rapidly growing problem. The sharing of images, videos, music and written content continues to rise. No one thinks twice about the use of other people’s designs, using someone else’s photographs or copying a business’ content or material without considering […]
The Pros and Cons of Creative Commons Licences
Every creative work has automatic Copyright protection from the moment it is actually ‘created’. Nobody can use, share, copy or alter the work without the creator’s express permission. The one exception is ‘fair use’ – where a portion of the work may be quoted, for example, when being critiqued, commented on or parodied. But what […]
Copyright Infringement: Clean Up Your Act in 2014
Regulations are getting wound up tighter and tighter – here in Australia and worldwide. What used to be the ‘Wild West’ of the Internet is fast becoming a game of ‘Keeping to the straight and narrow’. In 2013 Privacy and data collection were targets and front page news. Going forward, in 2014, look for Copyright […]
Who Owns the Copyright to an Infographic?
Graphic designer to Legal123: “Who owns the copyright to my Infographic designs?” Our graphic designer contacted us a few days ago. He was the great designer behind our fabulous Copyright Infringement Infographic. He wanted to ask us about one of the Infographic images he’d created for a client and what his rights were in relation […]
You May Be Breaching Copyright and Not Even Know It!
It is a common misconception that if something has been posted online, it is in the public domain and may be copied, reposted, extracted from, commented on and used freely. No, this is not the case. In fact, this is wrong. If you copy material off the Internet without permission, you are very likely infringing […]